The reason why I am so concerned about this is because I am writing a computer program that allows you to enter a root and the form you want it in, and it would give it to you.I understand your frustration, John, but it may be that there is in fact no logic here. Sometimes real language is arbitrary. You can find plenty of arbitrary irregular verb forms in English, as in almsot every real language. In fact Hebrew is much less irregular than English, given the special rules for verbs with gutturals etc. But it is not always uniform and regular.
So if you entered $MR, Qal Perfect 3MS the program would give you $FMAR
Or if you entered (ZB, Nif'al Imperfect 1CP the program would give you N"(FZ"B
So hence the words BRK and KRT are causing a big problem.
Is Hebrew so haphazard that such a program would be impossible to create, that basically every word really has to be treated is if it is in a world of its own? I mean what is the logic for BRK and KRT to be treated different?
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